This is a good time to say that nettime hasn't been moderated for the last several weeks -- since July 4th, to be exact. We didn't announce the change because it didn't seem necessary. Inward-looking meta-debates about moderation on nettime have always been at least partly boring, and they were sometimes destructive -- so why invite another one? Why not let them fade away with moderation?
Whatever you think about nettime now, it seems safe to say that the list would have ceased to exist long ago if it hadn't been moderated. But over time, as the list has become sleepier, the benefits of moderation have become fewer. And, as Keith's message shows, moderation has downsides -- for example, uncertainty about whether some messages have gotten lost in the shuffle. Over the last years, moderation -- to a large extent -- consisted of menial tasks such as rejecting oneliners and ask people who submitted bare URLs to write a brief intro and post the entire content into the mail, since the nettime archive is, actually, an archive. So, we ask you do keep this in mind -- along with all the rest -- when posting to nettime. Also, for all the people who care about nettime, think about inviting new people to post their own interesting material. So, for now at least, any message from a subscriber should immediately appear on the list. Non-scubscribers' messages are held for manual approval. If anyone seems to be abusing the list, we'll flag their address so their messages need to be manually approved. the mod squad, Felix, Ted, and Doma # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
